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The chapter reflects on the content and context of the International Society for the Systems Sciences Conference held in Vienna in 2016. Vienna aims to be a smart, carbon neutral city and has signed legislation making this a requirement for planning.
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Bell (2016), The Milken Institute Global Conference (2016) http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/conferences/global-conference/2016/panel-detail/6335http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/conferences/global-conference/2016/panel-detail/6335Tech vs. Talk: Is Technology Changing Human Relationships? Monday, May 2, 2016/10:45 am–11:45 am.
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hidden_figures/: “HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)-brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world...”
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Reuters in Abuja (2017) Malala Yousafzai condemns China over treatment of Liu Xiaobo https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/malala-yousafzai-condemns-china-treatment-liu-xiaobo-death.
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The argument is that just as in the Weimar Republic, people were prompted to elect a strong leader, namely, Hitler, people look to strong leaders when they face what seem to be overwhelming challenges. Paradoxically the election of Trump who is held up as a strong leader in the mold of Vladimir Putin who it has been suggested had an interest in seeing Trump elected to office. The election which brought Trump to office was at the time of writing under scrutiny resulting in the departure of Michael Flynn from government as a result of having conversations with the Russian Ambassador and failing to disclose these. See also: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/04/donald-trump-wiretap-barack-obama-coup.
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He grew up in an abusive family from whom he escaped by spending time in a library and eventually winning a scholarship.
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Papers delivered at the Venture Institute Symposium, July 2018, and International Systems Sciences (2018) cover what has been learned from pilots and pre-pilots. The next step is a planned study in South Africa. We hope to extend the proof of concept to show how a distributed network of hubs can help to create a new approach to managing the commons and sharing resources. Yvonne perhaps this will help as a basis for discussion in Mongolia next month and we can work with your colleagues there to develop another pilot?
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McIntyre-Mills, J. (2019). Vignette: Speaking Truth to Power in the Digital Economy—Can the Subaltern Be Heard?. In: McIntyre-Mills, J., Romm, N.R.A., Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (eds) Democracy and Governance for Resourcing the Commons. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04891-4_4
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